Fast broadband is essential today for the many, not just the few | Letters
by Letters from on (#4V8QV)
Hugh Chignell compares it with radio, Eunice Hinds says it will improve the lives of millions, and David Robson ridicules the criticism of Labour's plan as 'communist'
When Jeremy Corbyn argues that free broadband is "an essential utility" (Business backlash over Labour broadband plan, 16 November) he harks back to the early years of radio, almost a hundred years ago. John Reith, the first director general of the BBC, would surely have agreed with Corbyn.
The early pioneers of the BBC realised that radio could reach into every home and would provide a universal service for the public good. Radio would be entertaining, enriching and educational, and would inform every citizen in an energised democracy.
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